New Delhi: India recorded more than one lakh new Covid- 19 cases in the past seven days. This week, as the daily count of fresh infections touched another record high of over 15K on Tuesday while the day’s death too rose to a high of 466.

Country’s Covid- 19 case load surged from 3.53 lakhs a week ago (June 16^th) to over 4.55 lakhs on Tuesday adding more than 1.02 lakh cases in this period at a daily average of over 14, 600 cases. In these seven days, 2, 541 deaths were reported, nearly 18% all fatalities from the virus, which stand at 14, 455 cases. Cumulatively, 15, 689 fresh cases were reported on Tuesday, the sixth time that the single day count had touched a new peak in the past seven days. Continuing with its addition of  a significant number of Covid- 19 deaths, Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 248 deaths, its highest so far in a day taking the overall toll to 6, 531 in the state.

Of the deaths, 75 occurred in the last 48 hours, the state authority said. While 173 were from data reconciliation from the previous days. The previous highest toll in a day was 186 on June 21. On Tuesday Mumbai added 107 deaths, taking its toll to 3, 844 of the deaths, only 42 were from last 24 hours and the remaining 65 were from previous dates not described by the BMC.